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[Listening to: Aleda - Chemical Drive from the album "The Invention of Time"]

Spring break was a crapload of fun. To sum it up in four words: friends, Aleda and drinking. Originally I thought this spring break was going to consist of me sitting in my house all week doing nothing but watch tv, but fortunately for me two good friends decided they wanted to take trips to New York and made life much less boring for me. Jessie was on her way to NY the same day as I was, so that saved me a nice bit of money since she takes the Metro North from New Haven instead of the Greyhound bus. We hung out for most of the day, we scouted out areas to find a tattoo parlor so she could get a tattoo (shoutout to Chris for helping us scout out). I didn't get to see the final tattoo (and still haven't, I have to ask her), I had to run home and put my bags and everything down and settle in, but from what I saw, it looks damn good. Later in the night we took a stroll to the Barcade, enjoyed the atmosphere, enjoyed the games, and enjoyed a shot of Jager in honor of CJ who couldn't be there because he was all the hell away in Chicago. The next couple of days my friend John came down to NY. He stayed with my mom and I for a few days. It was a lot of fun, especially since he was the first friend I've ever had stay over at my house. We made the most of it, heading over to the Barcade as well as various places in Lower Manhattan. It was a smurfing good time.

What made this break even more awesome was the fact that John and I got a chance to hang out with Aleda in Williamsburg. Colin, the lead signer offered John and I copies of the new album so we met up with him, Joe the drummer and Joe (JoeBass) the Bassist at this spot where JoeBass bartends. We laughed, we drank (too much), we had a good time. The highlight of the night was when I was trying to give myself a rest after three beers, and then Colin said "c'mon man, you know you want that 4th beer! I'll buy it for ya!" In reference to the fact that I tried three of the four beers on tap there. I did want that 4th beer, but not at that particualr moment, I told him to give me about 10 minutes. 3 minutes later, "Hey Joe, give this guy his beer! It's been 10 minutes." I was about done after drinking that one. After we parted ways with Colin et al, John and I decided to head off to lower Manhattan to get ourselves in trouble. We get to Union Square, and John says to me, "I don't have the bag." The bag referring to the bag that contained his mother's birthday present as well as both our CDs. We then frantically looked back and forth to backtrack our steps to see if we could find the bag. After over an hour of running back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan, we gave up. Most likely John left the bag on the train, and someone picked it up. Piss. We headed back to the bar and sat to sober up and lament. We asked JoeBass if he had any more copies laying around. Fortunately he did, and we waited until his shift ended and went over to his place and recieved our new copies. I made damn sure I held on for dear life to my copy. It was all worth the wait. The album is incredible. I've never air guitared, air bassed and air drummed in the same song or the same album for that matter. This album gets me pumped like no other. I have to call up Colin and JoeBass to let them know how I feel about the album. I'll get to that later.

That Saturday, Jessie made another appearance in NY, so John and I met up with her and walked around Midtown for a while and reveled in all the people crowding around bars for St. Patrick's Day. Overall Spring Break kicked asssssss.

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Right now I'm working on a song in Reason tentatively titled "...An Epic Encounter". It's a pseudo-orchestral sounding piece consisting of drums, timpani, full string section and horn section made up of french horns and trombones. It's going to kick assssss! It has this epic video game boss battle feel, and I like how it's coming out so far. It's about midway done. I'm really looking forward to this one. One thing I found out though that kinda bugged me out was the fact that it sounds strikingly like the music to Dark World from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It sounds a lot like it, which is strange because I've never heard the song, or even played A Link to the Past for that matter. Weird. Maybe I saw one of my roommates play it once and don't remember. Ah well, I'm still finishing this song. At least I didn't consciously bite off the song like some composers do. John Williams' Star Wars theme is based off of Erich Korngold's "Kings Row" title theme song. I regret nothing. NOTHING!!!!1 k, I'm done.